Vidyo Architecture Enables Natural, Reliable HD-Quality Interactions for Telehealth Consultations
Hackensack, NJ – May 2, 2011 – Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced a partnership with American Well™, whose Online Care Suite connects providers and patients for live, immediate, and clinically meaningful encounters using the Web or phone. By incorporating Vidyo’s award-winning communications and collaboration platform into the Online Care system, American Well will offer its customers a compelling new option to further enhance the highly personal, face-to-face interactions between providers and patients.
American Well partners with health plans, delivery networks and pharmacy chains to enable Online Care services that allow patients to connect live and on-demand with primary care and specialty physicians, as well as other clinicians, whenever they have a health need, from their homes or workplaces. Providers are able to review the patient’s clinical information, discuss symptoms, diagnose, and prescribe medications as appropriate, for anything from common illnesses such as colds, flu, and sinus infections to chronic care management, behavioral health or nutrition. At the end of the consultation, the patient is encouraged to share a full record of the conversation with his or her primary care physician, maintaining continuity of care.
“Telehealth is playing an increasingly important role in American healthcare delivery, and at the heart of that shift is the high quality of the Online Care interaction,” said Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH, President and Chief Executive Officer of American Well Systems. “Vidyo’s platform will offer our customers the opportunity to further enhance both the clinical and the personal experience for patient and provider alike – through its ability to deliver reliable, HD video quality over the Internet.”
“Vidyo for Healthcare provides quick and easy video communications and collaboration access to those who need a high-quality, affordable telemedicine solution,” said Ofer Shapiro, Vidyo co-founder and CEO. “Using Vidyo’s platform, partners such as American Well can build client applications using the Vidyo SDK and APIs. Their client organizations, in turn, can enable customers to deploy video conferencing for healthcare from anywhere, allowing patients and practitioners to use their existing laptops or desktops.”
American Well’s Online Care Suite will be commercially available in the Summer of 2011.
American Well™ brings healthcare into the homes of patients across the country. Its Online Care Suite is the industry’s leading telehealth solution, connecting providers and patients for live, immediate, and clinically meaningful encounters using the Web or phone. With its patented technology, the Online Care Suite removes traditional barriers to healthcare access – such as geography, mobility, and time constraints – while enabling providers to deliver quality care in a flexible, convenient manner, generating revenue along the way.
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Vidyo, Inc. is pionier op het gebied van Personal Telepresence, waarmee natuurlijke, HD-multipuntvideoconferenties op desktopcomputers en zaalsystemen mogelijk zijn, en VidyoCasteen betaalbare cloudgebaseerde broadcastoplossing. Vidyo's gepatenteerde VidyoRouter-architectuur maakt een MCU overbodig en levert tegelijkertijd de beste foutbestendigheid en laagste latency videoconferentie- en uitzendoplossingen via het internet in de branche. De oplossing van Vidyo maakt gebruik van H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) en het bedrijf is sinds 2005 actief in verschillende normalisatie-instituten die de interoperabiliteit van H.264 SVC en SIP bevorderen. Lees meer op vidyo.nlop de Blog of volg @vidyo op Twitter.
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